[osg-submissions] Use atomic reference counts

[Robert Osfield]

Hi Mathias,

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Mathias Fröhlich
<M.Froehlich at science-computing.de> wrote:
>
> Robert,
>
> On Friday 20 June 2008 10:35, Robert Osfield wrote:
>> OK, now understood, although it does still seem like an awkward
>> solution.  So what is the directory structure that will be produced?
>> What will happen during an install?
> The config file is installed to the OpenThreadsdirectory. Since this config
> file is required there is no other way to do so ...

To be clear, it gets installed into something like:

 /usr/local/include/OpenThreads/Config

Also where is Config generated to when you are building out of source?

>> As it's require for out of source builds, would it be possible to just
>> include this for out of source builds?  Adding what at times is a
>> superfluous include paths seems a bit inappropriate.
> May be a check if
>
>  PROJECT_BINARY_DIR != PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR
>
> does the trick??

One would have to try it first, but I'm sure something like the above
would work.

> But OTOH, does it hurt if we have -I directory twice?

It might not hurt, but this doesn't mean that it's good engineering.
It's something that could easily confuse users who are trying to debug
problems in build.

Robert.